Goodreads Choice Awards Finalists 2025

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Stephanie Flinders (16 Lists)



Pippi Longstocking by Astrid LindgrenCharlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald DahlThe Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Favorite books from my childhood
4,413 books — 7,416 voters
The Polar Express by Chris Van AllsburgLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottChristmas in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Best Reads of the Holiday Season
5,452 books — 1,433 voters

The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone
Picture Books About Gingerbread Man
139 books — 21 voters
Room for a Little One by Martin Waddell
Christmas Books for Christian Kids
57 books — 37 voters

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
Inspiring True Stories
276 books — 331 voters
Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo EmersonFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
A Journey Through Literary America
153 books — 220 voters

Rebecca by Daphne du MaurierThe Forgotten Garden by Kate MortonAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyThe Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley
Best Books to Read When the Snow Is Falling
13,613 books — 9,419 voters
To Be a Runner by Martin Dugard
Best Running (non-instructional) Books
227 books — 555 voters

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
100 Biographies & Memoirs to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
1,871 books — 1,777 voters
Anna Karenina by Leo TolstoyLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
BBC Women's Watershed Fiction (2004 poll)
131 books — 38 voters

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Best of Outdoor Literature
241 books — 74 voters
Findings by Kathleen JamieGranta 102 by Jason Cowley
British and Irish Nature Writing
249 books — 169 voters

Les Misérables by Victor HugoFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest HemingwayLeaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanLittle Women by Louisa May AlcottOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
100 Books to Read in a Lifetime: Readers' Picks
15,145 books — 17,355 voters
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty SmithRebecca by Daphne du MaurierFor Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
Best Books of the 20th Century
7,815 books — 49,781 voters

A Story Like the Wind by Laurens van der Post
Best books for an African Safari
475 books — 525 voters
The Book of Mormon by Joseph Smith Jr.The Hiding Place by Corrie ten BoomThe Man Who Killed the Deer by Frank Waters
Books That Everyone Should Read At Least Once
31,404 books — 119,666 voters